Top 25 Years Quotes

Favorite 25 Years Quotes

1. "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."Author: A. P. Herbert

2. "Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat."Author: Adam Gopnik

3. "Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility."Author: Ashim Shanker

4. "I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun."Author: Ashlee Simpson

5. "I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight."Author: Barry McGuigan

6. "This journey... it's long". He says this as if he's felt all 250 years of travel."Author: Beth Revis

7. "It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory."Author: Bob Kane

8. "I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything."Author: Bob Parsons

9. "25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene."Author: Bob Saget

10. "I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."Author: Boyd Rice

11. "I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it."Author: Bret Easton Ellis

12. "I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!"Author: Brittany Snow

13. "It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."Author: Dan Simmons

14. "I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid."Author: Emmanuel Jal

15. "People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids."Author: Gail Devers

16. "The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well."Author: Greg Norman

17. "We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens."Author: Grover Norquist

18. "[José] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive."Author: Harold Bloom

19. "I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough."Author: Hulk Hogan

20. "In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman's marriage, coincided with Woolf 's most productive years as a writer."Author: Jane Goldman

21. "Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. That package comprised three cereals, as the main carbohydrate sources; four pulses, with 20—25 percent protein, and four domestic animals, as the main protein sources, supplemented by the generous protein content of wheat; and flax as a source of fiber and oil (termed linseed oil: flax seeds are about 40 percent oil). Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Thus, the crops and animals of the Fertile Crescent's first farmers came to meet humanity's basic economic needs: carbohydrate, protein, fat, clothing, traction, and transport."Author: Jared Diamond

22. "I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler."Author: Jeremy Bulloch

23. "Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard."Author: Jim Thome

24. "For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor."Author: John Barrasso

25. "I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team."Author: John Katzman

26. "Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."Author: John Keegan

27. "I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."Author: John Stossel

28. "I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs."Author: Jon Lovitz

29. "If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."Author: Joshua Lederberg

30. "For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."Author: Joyce Maynard

31. "And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old."Author: Julius Erving

32. "The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)"Author: Kenneth C. Davis

33. "I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes."Author: Kristian Bush

34. "Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000."Author: Lloyd Dorfman

35. "Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress."Author: Marc Warren

36. "I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years."Author: Martin Gore

37. "I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."Author: Mary Oliver

38. "I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!"Author: Matthew Lesko

39. "I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes."Author: Michael Imperioli

40. "When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time."Author: Michael Tilson Thomas

41. "The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone."Author: Milton Friedman

42. "An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12."Author: Miranda July

43. "I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"Author: Paul Begala

45. "I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later."Author: Rob Zombie

46. "Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago."Author: Robert Teeter

47. "In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them."Author: Rodney Brooks

48. "You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension."Author: Sarah Wayne Callies

49. "I actually have never been to a gym. I haven't had time. I have been working for the last 25 years. I just don't have time to put on a little outfit and go to the gym and work out and clean up and come home."Author: Suzanne Somers

50. "Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years."Author: Taylor Dane